JOB SUMMARY
Joining the Royalties & Statements department in our Nashville office, the primary role of the Royalties Coordinator will be to take ownership of weekly, recurring as well as ad-hoc tasks focusing on data, analysis and processing of our clients’ music royalties.
This requires a process-driven mindset and a high level of attention to detail. You’ll be working in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment so your organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as an inquisitive and curious mindset, will be vital as you are constantly exposed to new challenges.
In return you get to work with a forward-thinking and collaborative team in an entrepreneurial environment where your ideas and suggestions on how to maximise value for our clients are always welcome.
This is also a great learning opportunity where you will be exposed to multiple departments across the organisation. Kobalt is a global music and technology company built for songwriters and publishers with the technology infrastructure to enable better tracking and royalty collection for the billions of micro-payments per song in digital music today.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- You will be working through a range of scheduled and ad-hoc tasks such as weekly processing, allocation and processing of our client’s royalties.
- You will work closely with other members across the team as well as with other departments in Publishing Operations handling a wide range of statement and quality control checks.
- Ensure best practices is documented and maintained so colleagues have the information and direction they require to solve problems arising from distributions and support copyright teams with any direction they may seek regarding royalties or royalty processing
- Make sure that statements, data files and receipts are received accurately and on a timely basis, and handled accordingly in line with internal schedules, standards and deadlines.
Essential Criteria:
- You are numerical, with a track-record of excellent organisation and prioritisation skills and strong attention to detail, accuracy, and a detail-driven mind-set
- You are comfortable formatting data in Excel as you will be working on a pivot tables as well as using formulas like VLOOKUP's on a daily basis
- You have excellent communication skills
- You have the ability to initiate improvement to existing tools and processes to continually enhance our service offering
- You are a fluent Spanish speaker
Desirable Criteria
- You have a good understanding of music publishing, with previous admin, copyright or royalty processing experience as a nice-to-have
Top Skills
What We Do
Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.
As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.
Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations like AWAL, an alternative to the traditional record label, and AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses.
Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.
